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There Once Were Giants: This 1950s Video Showing Off The New Caterpillar D9 Shows The Beginning Of Massive Earthmovers

People who like big equipment know that the Caterpillar D9 tractor is one of the most well known, well developed, and widely used machines around the world. In this day and age of mega-giant...

Featured Product: This New Battery Terminal Will Help With Your Wiring Woes! NEVER cut another wire! – KnuKonceptz ULTIMATE Battery Terminal 2.0!

Wiring hot rods, muscle cars, and race cars can be a daunting task for a lot of people, but sometimes the simplest stuff can be the most frustrating. Lets say you buy a bad ass wiring kit for your...

El Camino Project: How To Bend Hard Lines For A Transmission Cooler, Or Brake And Fuel Lines Too!

Video Description: Automatic transmissions need to cool the fluid so it doesn’t burn up. For most applications, this means running coolant lines to the radiator (or separate cooler). Instead of...

Finishing Up The Suspension On The 1964 Nova Gasser: Rear End FIASCO – Fire, Grinding, FRUSTRATION. Ford 9 Inch Install

Um, no matter how good the gasser front end works, if you don’t take care of the rear it will look funny and just be a poser. So the Chevy II had to get some more love. However, there were...

Top Fuel Dragster 101: What’s Inside The Cockpit Of A Top Fuel Dragster And What Do All These Things Do?

You’ve all seen them make passes down the dragstrip, whether in person or on tv, but have you ever seen what is actually inside the cockpit of a Top Fuel Dragster? As close as you can get to...

Out Of Practice: When You Don’t Do It Very Often, WRC Overtaking Goes Wrong

Let’s face it, if you race in a series where you are usually on the track all by yourself and never have a need to pass someone, when it does happen you aren’t going to be as...

A Trip Back In Time: This Incredible Drag Racing Film Shows Guys Like Connie Kalitta, EJ Potter, The Arfons Boys and Others As Kids!

Just when you think you have seen it all! The amazing thing about video footage like this is that it mimics the whole “barn find” car deal because when someone drags some incredible thing...

Watch This Scale Porsche Flat Six Fire Up And Make Really Wild Noises!

We love scale engines of all shapes and sizes, including ones that aren’t in a V-shape with eight cylinders screaming. Take this incredible Porsche flat six for example that was hand crafted by...

The Bitter End: This Video Of Chrysler Turbine Cars Being Destroyed Is Hard To Watch

A while back I posted a video of a1960s Chrysler turbine car being road tested at the Chrysler proving grounds. The video was cool because we saw the car hauling around the track and rip roaring over...

Drag Strip Time Travel: This Footage From Edgewater Sports Park In The Early 1970s Is Fantastic

Now here’s the good stuff! You are going to travel back in time to the early 1970s at Ohio’s Edgewater Sports Park to see a load of great cars attacking the historic track’s...

Hot Rodding A Restored 1932 Ford Roadster – Only The Iron Trap Garage Crew Would Go This Far!

I’m down for cutting up almost anything, but there are a few times when I have seen a car and thought “Nope, I can’t do it. It’s just too nice.” This 1932 Ford is just...

Alaska’s First “Cash Days” was EPIC And Put On Just For The 1320 Video Crew! (600-1500hp Street Cars)

When 1320Video comes to Alaska for some races and 4th of July fun, the racers respond and so does the track. In fact, they all stepped up to do a back of the track no prep street car shootout just...

WHAT IS PISTON TO VALVE CLEARANCE? THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SEEING AND UNDERSTANDING HOW PISTON TO VALVE CLEARANCE MATTERS FOR YOU!

I know that sometimes you guys and gals out there read a story about an engine and realize there is either something mentioned that you DON’T understand, or that there must be more to it than...

Influence and Impact E4 – Blazer History, K5, Roadster Trucks and Off-Road Rigs

In this video, which is the 4th episode in the series, the C10/K10 Blazer will be the topic! This new series from the guys at Auto Revolution is pretty darn cool! If you ever wondered how the C10...